baby letters

I am now officially crafty! I decided to make my own wall letters for our soon to be born baby girl instead of purchasing them. Soooo I headed to Michaels not knowing what I would find. Ended up buying some wood, spray paint, ribbon and voila! Thought I would share just one letter of the babies name...I will say that this is NOT the first letter of her name. Oh the suspense! Also thought I'd throw in a cute picture of Brody curled up in his baby sister's crib with her dolly :)

First day

Well I can't believe it is already August. It seemed like so far away back in May. Friday the 14th marked the first day of kindergarten for Dylan. I know, I can hardly believe it myself! We signed him up for bus service and somehow amazingly I did not cry when they drove my little boy away. Brody did, but not me :) He was not nervous at all, had a great time, and said it was "the best day of his life". Thought I would post some pics to share this very important day for Dylan, enjoy!


Dylan posing with Brody



Showing off his new Mario Brothers backpack



Waiting for the bus



Leaving on the bus...he was somewhere in the middle

Dylan goes solo!

Well I've been wanting to start this blog-thing for awhile now, but thought I needed some exciting event to occur first to get me started. Then it happened! Last Thursday night, I asked Dylan, my 5 year old, to let me know when he was ready to take his training wheels off of his bike. He thought about it and said "How about when I'm 5 and 1/2 ?" I said that was fine but that it would be winter time when he was 5 and 1/2 so didn't know if we would be out riding bikes then. So he thought about it some more and decided it was time. I explained to him that once they come off, we are not going to put them back on and that it could take a while to learn. He seemed ok with this and let his Dad remove them. Not 10 minutes later he was doing circles around our cul-de-sac without any help. I was so proud! And he couldn't resist but say "Mom you didn't think I would learn for a long time... I told you so!!" I will never again doubt his abilities and again realize how fast he is growing up!